Yes, but:

1) it talks about turning up the monitor all the way up for contrast and
brightness to determine the gamma: is this the way you run all day long? If I
turn it down, I get a different number...
2) what number is the industry standard.

Thanks, I think you directed me to those pages months ago, but I'm still
lost.  I think that gamma is a weak function of one's monitor's build and a
strong function of the numbers one chooses.

I think I have a problem which will be solved by getting a correct gamma.
The problem is that a lot of work from other people looks crappily dark to
me, and my own work looks crappily dark when printed.  Some winning IRTC
entries look supercool and superphotorealistic, but just WAY too dark. One
example is Gail Shaw's 2/16/00 p.b.i offering.   I think that if I somehow
adopted the right gamma,  all these entries that other people like would look
nice to me, maybe I'd even get better prints of my own work!

Educate me!

ingo wrote:

> Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>
> >My problem is that I think I'm a bit darker than everyone else, and want
> >an objective, numerical way to standardize my viewing settings.
> >
> Have you looked at the gamma.gif and gamma.txt at the end of the download
> area of povray.org?
>
> Ingo
>
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